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Dec 18, 2008 at 12:01 AM

Oliver Nelson's "Blues and the Abstract Truth" is a landmark recording in jazz. The reedman, lacking solo time in Quincy Jones' band, put all his heart into this 1961 recording. Enter pianist and arranger Bill Cunliffe, a jazz regular in Los Angeles, where Nelson spent his last years. For soloing heft, he taps trumpeter Terell Stafford and alto saxophonist Jeff Clayton of the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra. The result is respectable.

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